This Adobe Animate training class is for people new to Animate (formerly Adobe Flash). After getting to know the Animate CC interface, you will learn to use the drawing tools and to create graphic and button symbols and cool Animate animations.

Goals

Get comfortable with the Animate CC user interface.

Learn to work with Animate's drawing tools.

Learn to work with Graphic Symbols and the Library.

Learn to create basic and advanced animations in Animate.

Learn to use Button Symbols in Animate.

Outline

Getting Started

Starting Animate and Opening a File

Getting to Know the Work Area

Creating a New Document

Using Workspaces

Moving Panels

Changing Workspaces

Opening Existing Files

Using the Properties Panel

Undo

Previewing Your Movie

Publishing Your Movie

Some Important Keyboard Shortcuts

Exercise: Previewing Your Movie

Working with Drawing Tools

Drawing in Animate

Using the Tools Panel

Using the Drawing Tools

Using the Animate Drawing Tools to Create Shapes

Using Additional Tools

Exercise: Use the Drawing Tools to Create a Logo

Graphic Symbols and the Library

Working with the Library Panel

About Symbols

Creating Symbols

Editing and Managing Symbols

Duplicating Symbols

Swapping Symbols

Changing the Size and Position of Instances

Changing the Color Effect of Instances

Create Graphic Symbols

Exercise: Create Graphic Symbols for a Banner Ad

Import to Stage / Import to Library

Open Another Document's Library / Sharing

Importing Illustrator Files

Importing Photoshop Files

Exercise: Create Graphic Symbols

Basic Animation

Understanding the Timeline

Organizing Layers in a Timeline

About Animation

Frame-by-Frame Animation

Adding Frames, Keyframes, and Blank Keyframes

Animating Position: Frame-by-Frame Animation

Changing the Pacing and Timing

Animating Transparency

Previewing the Animation

Animation with a Motion Tween

Exercise: Use Motion Tween to Animate Airplane

Using Timelines to Create Movie Structure

Understanding Our Project File

Exercise: Build Site Structure on Timeline

More with Animation

Exercise: Improving Motion Tweens with Easing and Motion Presets

Advanced Animation

Copy and Paste Motion

Creating Motion Presets

Create Photo Gallery using Motion Presets

Creating Masks

Animating Masks

Morphing with Shape Tweens

Using Shape Hints

Motion with Inverse Kinematics

Constraining Joints

Inverse Kinematics

Inverse Kinematics with Shapes

Button Symbols

Creating Button Symbols

Text-Only Buttons (Using the Hit State)

Animated Buttons

Exercise: Adding Buttons to the Web Site

Using Sounds

Movie Clip Symbols

Creating Movie Clip Symbols

Movie Clip Symbols vs. Graphic Symbols

Using a Movie Clip to Store Animation

Nesting Symbols

Exercise: Creating Movie Clips

Code Snippets in a Movie Clip

Exercise: Using Code to Stop the Website

Publishing Animate Documents

Testing a Animate Document

Publish Settings

Exercise: Publishing

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.